NEW YORK (CNS) — “Loving” (Focus), the fact-based story behind a landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision, is so restrained that it nearly obscures the historical significance of the events it recounts. The Lovings, who lived in Virginia, married in Washington in 1958, thereby evading, temporarily at least, their home state's law forbidding interracial unions. Such “anti-miscegenation” statutes had their origins in the days of slavery but were reinforced in Southern states after the Civil War; Virginia's was enacted in 1924.Friday, December 9, 2016

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Somewhere in the planning stages of "Incarnate" (BH Tilt), someone must have thought it would be a good idea to combine elements of Christopher Nolan's 2010 tour de force "Inception" with tropes that have been familiar to moviegoers at least since Linda Blair's head went spinning round in "The Exorcist" way back in 1973.Thursday, December 8, 2016

January of 1973 was a month, as Lady Bracknell says in "The Importance of Being Earnest," "crowded with incident." For Catholic readers, the chapters on the progress through the Supreme Court of the decision that ended with Roe v. Wade may be the most disturbing, but Robenalt gives us a lucid and unbiased account of how the decision was developed. It serves to remind us of what the decision really says and not what people have made it say to further their agendas.Wednesday, December 7, 2016